M78

Messier 78 - Reflection nebula in the constellation Orion. Article “M78” in Chinese Wikipedia has 36 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 11 references and 5 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Chinese) language version.

Since the creation of article “M78”, its content was written by 25 registered users of Chinese Wikipedia and edited by 723 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 185 times in Chinese Wikipedia and cited 6734 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Chinese): #5462 in May 2011
• Global: #5745 in May 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Chinese): #20482 in April 2019
• Global: #149443 in April 2019

There are 41 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Messier 78		42.3631
2	Czech (cs) Messier 78		38.9102
3	German (de) Messier 78		36.1035
4	Chinese (zh) M78		35.9965
5	Swedish (sv) Messier 78		35.3659
6	Russian (ru) M 78 (туманность)		33.5944
7	French (fr) M78 (nébuleuse)		32.2319
8	Finnish (fi) Messier 78		31.9529
9	Italian (it) M78 (astronomia)		30.5868
10	Japanese (ja) M78 (天体)		30.343

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "M78" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Messier 78		344 931
2	Japanese (ja) M78 (天体)		198 737
3	Chinese (zh) M78		115 499
4	German (de) Messier 78		60 993
5	Russian (ru) M 78 (туманность)		48 945
6	Spanish (es) Nebulosa M78		43 544
7	French (fr) M78 (nébuleuse)		33 115
8	Italian (it) M78 (astronomia)		31 782
9	Polish (pl) Messier 78		30 245
10	Portuguese (pt) Messier 78		22 185

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "M78" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Messier 78		1 105
2	Japanese (ja) M78 (天体)		676
3	Chinese (zh) M78		340
4	Ukrainian (uk) Мессьє 78		175
5	Spanish (es) Nebulosa M78		124
6	German (de) Messier 78		122
7	French (fr) M78 (nébuleuse)		117
8	Russian (ru) M 78 (туманность)		115
9	Finnish (fi) Messier 78		95
10	Portuguese (pt) Messier 78		94

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "M78" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Messier 78		85
2	German (de) Messier 78		62
3	French (fr) M78 (nébuleuse)		59
4	Italian (it) M78 (astronomia)		49
5	Dutch (nl) Messier 78		46
6	Japanese (ja) M78 (天体)		38
7	Russian (ru) M 78 (туманность)		37
8	Croatian (hr) Messier 78		31
9	Hungarian (hu) Messier 78		26
10	Chinese (zh) M78		25

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "M78" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Esperanto (eo) M78		1
2	Persian (fa) مسیه ۷۸		1
3	Arabic (ar) مسييه 78		0
4	Azerbaijani (az) NGC 2068		0
5	Belarusian (be) M78 (аб’ект Месье)		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) M78		0
7	Catalan (ca) Messier 78		0
8	Czech (cs) Messier 78		0
9	German (de) Messier 78		0
10	Greek (el) Μεσιέ 78		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "M78" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	French (fr) M78 (nébuleuse)		711
2	English (en) Messier 78		477
3	Basque (eu) Messier 78		339
4	Romanian (ro) Messier 78		327
5	Dutch (nl) Messier 78		326
6	Arabic (ar) مسييه 78		301
7	Turkish (tr) Messier 78		290
8	Italian (it) M78 (astronomia)		278
9	Chinese (zh) M78		185
10	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Messier 78		184

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic مسييه 78
az	Azerbaijani NGC 2068
be	Belarusian M78 (аб’ект Месье)
bg	Bulgarian M78
ca	Catalan Messier 78
cs	Czech Messier 78
de	German Messier 78
el	Greek Μεσιέ 78
en	English Messier 78
eo	Esperanto M78
es	Spanish Nebulosa M78
et	Estonian Messier 78
eu	Basque Messier 78
fa	Persian مسیه ۷۸
fi	Finnish Messier 78
fr	French M78 (nébuleuse)
he	Hebrew M78
hr	Croatian Messier 78
hu	Hungarian Messier 78
id	Indonesian Messier 78
it	Italian M78 (astronomia)
ja	Japanese M78 (天体)
ka	Georgian მესიე 78
ko	Korean 메시에 78
lt	Lithuanian Mesjė 78
nl	Dutch Messier 78
no	Norwegian Messier 78
pl	Polish Messier 78
pt	Portuguese Messier 78
ro	Romanian Messier 78
ru	Russian M 78 (туманность)
sh	Serbo-Croatian Messier 78
sk	Slovak Messier 78
sr	Serbian Месје 78
sv	Swedish Messier 78
th	Thai เมซีเย 78
tr	Turkish Messier 78
uk	Ukrainian Мессьє 78
vi	Vietnamese Messier 78
zh	Chinese M78
zhminnan	Min Nan Messier 78

Best Rank

Chinese: #20482 04.2019

Global: #149443 04.2019

Best Rank

Chinese: #5462 05.2011

Global: #5745 05.2011

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